In my experience, writing a novel tends to create its own structure, its own demands, its own language, its own ending.
There's never a dearth of reasons to shoot at the President.
When my head is in the typewriter the last thing on my mind is some imaginary reader. I don't have an audience; I have a set of standards.
When birds look into houses, what impossible worlds they see.
There is a world inside the world.
The genius of rock music is that it matched the cultural hysteria around it.